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Summary
Peder Severin Krøyer: Study for portrait of Holger Drachmann.
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| Title |
English: Study for portrait of Holger Drachmann. Dansk: Studie til portræt af Holger Drachmann. |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
When Holger Drachmann died in 1908, the Museum at Frederiksborg commissioned Krøyer with a portrait of him. Krøyer could just have repeated his 1895 portrait, but instead he looked at his neighbour. The dune warden Ole Kristoffersen had exactly the same stature as the late poet. Tall, with somewhat narrow shoulders, blue eyes and a white beard. In the attic of the mayor's house in Skagen stood Drachmann's trunk with all his clothes, and they fitted Kristoffersen neatly. The result was a portrait of Kristoffersen that Krøyer gave an uncanny likeness to Drachmann by adding his facial features including the well known stare into infinity, and it became the basis of the similarly sized portrait. |
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| Date | June 1908 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 81 cm (31.8 in); width: 66 cm (25.9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Unknown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
The estate of P. S. Krøyer, 1910 no. 201. Bought by Skagens Museum for DKK 360. Sold at Bruun Rasmussen Auctions on September 6, 2000 for DKK 320,000 (EUR 43,000) (Lot 682/1466). |
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Initials, location and date top left: S. K. Skagen Juni 1908
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| References | Christensen 770: Hans Christian Christensen (1923) P.S. Krøyer, 23. JULI 1851 - 20. NOVEMBER 1909, fortegnelse af hans oliemalerier, Copenhagen: G.E.C. Gads Forlag, no. 770 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | bruun-rasmussen.dk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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